India, June 16 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an interview with Fox News on Sunday, said that Iran has been trying to assassinate United States President Donald Trump as it views him as a threat to its nuclear program.

Trying to justify Israel's actions against Iran, Netanyahu said those who "chant 'death to America', tried to assassinate President Trump twice, killed 241 of your Marines in Beirut, killed and injured thousands of American soldiers in Afghanistan" shouldn't have nuclear weapons.

Asked whether he had any intel that the assassination attempts on Trump were directly from Iran, Netanyahu said, "Through proxies, yes, through their intel, yes, they want to kill him".

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